Re: [tlug] vi weird when I ssh to one machine

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>  > TERM=xterm-256color
>  > SHELL=/bin/bash
>  > > I first set it as TERM=vt100, otherwise I get various error messages,...
>  > Ooh, this works.
> 
> This means that the terminal that you're using doesn't understand
> xterm-256 control sequences.  That's hard-coded into the terminal.[1]
> 
> What terminal are you using?  Does it advertise xterm-256
> compatibility in the documentation?

By "terminal" do you mean on the client machine, or on the server?

On the client it is xfce4-terminal. But this is the same terminal I use
with all the other servers, where `vi` does work fine with
TERM=xterm-256color.

On the server, isn't that just bash?

Darren